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Are you looking to break up with your TV?

A poll commissioned by Sony Electronics in November found that many of us want to break up with our current set.

BY: JURA KONCIUS

While 94 percent of Americans who have a TV set watch it every day, more than half of them would like to dump their set for a newer and probably thinner one. (How shallow of us.) That’s according to a poll commissioned by Sony Electronics in November to gauge consumers’ level of satisfaction with their TVs. The findings show that many of us want to break up with our current sets, though men and women have different issues with them.

Here are a few of the key findings in the national online poll of 2,574 adults conducted by Harris Interactive.

*How much TV?

62 percent of those who have a TV spend three hours or more per day watching it. 19 percent spend six hours or more daily with their TV.

*Who’s on the couch the most?

Adults ages 45 to 54 are more likely to spend more than six hours a day with their TV than those ages 18 to 34 or 35 to 44. Women are more likely than men to be in this group, and divorced, separated or widowed Americans are more likely to be in this longest-watching group than those who are married.

*TV embarrassment

53 percent of those with a TV would like to upgrade to one with better features. The numbers are higher for men: 58 percent of them would like to ditch their current set vs. 49 percent of women.

*Top reasons for wanting to break up with a TV: 1. Embarrassed by its size. 2. Think it’s outdated. 3. Unsatisfied with model and 4. Bored with features.

*TV shame by region of the country: Southerners are the most likely to be embarrassed (34 percent), followed by Midwesterners, Westerners and Northeasterners.